Russia: EU does Washington's bidding, should be ashamed

Russia: EU does Washington's bidding, should be ashamed

MOSCOW -- Russia has criticized new sanctions against its officials over the role of Moscow in the crisis in Ukraine, saying that the EU was influenced by Washington.

That is something the EU should be "ashamed of," the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted.

"Instead of forcing the Kiev clique to sit at the table with southeastern Ukraine to negotiate the future structure of the country, our partners are doing Washington's bidding with new unfriendly gestures aimed at Russia," the ministry said, according to Reuters.

"If this is how someone in Brussels hopes to stabilize the situation in Ukraine, it is obvious evidence of a complete lack of understanding of the internal political situation and direct invitation for the local neo-Nazis to continue to conduct lawlessness and reprisals against the peaceful population of the southeast," said the statement, and added:

"Are they not ashamed?"